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) (Vol. viii., p. 173.).—"N. & Q." has exhibited a forgetfulness, of which he is very seldom guilty. If he and his correspondent Mr. Mansfield Ingleby will refer to Vol. ii., p. 230., they will find the same question asked by Mr. M. A. Lower and if they will turn over the leaves to p. 284., they will find an answer by Φ., which he now begs to repeat. The word designated is and-per-se-and. Curiously enough, the first of the above printed symbols seeing to have been formed from Φ.'s explanation, that it was nothing more than a flourishing "et."
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Its (Vol. viii., p. 12.).—In compliance with the request of your correspondent B. H. C., I have the pleasure to inform him that in Richard Burnfields Poems (reprinted by James Boswell for the Roxburgh Club), "The Complaint of Poetrie for the death of Liberalitie," 1598, is one of the pieces, and on the first page of signature C. the word its occurs, but as a contraction of it is:
"The maimed souldier comming from the warre;
The woefull wight, whose house was lately burnd;
The sillie soule; the woful traueylar;
And all, whom Fortune at her feet hath spurnd;
Lament the losse of Liberalitie;